Business Plans

I have what I think is quite a good business idea and I’m putting together a business plan, but need funding. So does anyone know of any competitions I can enter? Thanks.

Okay, so I’m 15, and a Freshman in High School, and I think I want to start a business when I’m an adult and have sufficient funds. My interests are electronics, reading, video games, etc. so I’m thinking probably an electronic business like Microsoft, or a gaming business like Bungie(Halo) or Jagex(Runescape). I’ve searched on the internet and found some sites like http://marshallbrain.com/million3.htm which inspired me to become an entrepreneur, and the presentation on that site is great, although I haven’t finished it yet.

I’ve looked at sites like WikiHow, and it said I need to start a business plan, and I think I’ve started that. I made a list of my interests, then I went through the list again, and wrote beside some of the interests possible business ideas for them. That’s about as far as I got with that.

So basically, here are my questions:

1)What do I need to do now? I’m sure I’ll need good grades to get into college(currently I have 6 A’s, 2 B’s), but is there anything else I can start doing now? I know I can go ahead and make a business plan, so speaking of which…

2)Business plan? You read how much I have on it, but what else do I need to add? Any sites where they give a “format” for business plans? I’m just not sure what more to include.

3)College? What courses do you think I should take to gain my workers’ confidence and respect? I mean, you don’t want to work at an electronics company whose founder majored in theatrical arts. So what courses would I need to take? To what degree? Any specific colleges that would be good for budding entrepreneurs?

4)Anything else? I know it’ll be a lot of hard work, and there is a chance that I’ll fail(BTW, what is the statistic for that again?), but I want to make this work, because I can’t think of anything else that I’d rather be as an adult(Other than an author, but the chances of that aren’t that great either)

Thanks for taking the time to read this, and please post links as these will probaly help greatly.

Are there any suggestions/websites that provide some fairly simple business ideas for a 19 year old? I plan on starting one this summer…one with a low startup capital

thnx in advance!

Hello I take a entrepenurship class at H.S. and we have to come up with a simple business plan. Does anyone have any bussinees ideas